4 2 METAPHYSICS 



appearance of man, an increasing fineness, so to speak, 

 in that evolutionary process becomes apparent, when 

 the intellectual begins to develop and to superadd the 

 moral qualities the last and highest of all the human 

 distinguishing attributes, and constituting a great step 

 forward in the ultra-dynamic evolution of the cosmos 

 and a " new world," in a sense, has been begun, which is 

 still evolving itself along the line of continuity, until of a 

 certainty it becomes apparent that the great common- 

 plane of eternity must be once more reached, and what 

 the human longing, so generally and intensely felt by 

 that race, has pictured to and for itself, the everlasting 

 life has at last been attained. 



Thus what we may denominate the all-pervading law of 

 continuity opens up to every such creature the prospect 

 of eternal life, with a certitude equivalent to mathematical, 

 and an inexorableness of absolute necessity time ending 

 as it began in the everlasting continuity of eternity, with 

 its passive attributes of space and matter, and its dynamic 

 factor of force or energy, and all constituting one con- 

 tinuous whole, in the manner of " wheels within wheels," 

 fashioned and administered by an Infinite Intelligence 

 and Omnipotent Power, which no anthropomorphic 

 methods of estimation and comparison can enable us 

 more than very slightly to appreciate, and which, we may 

 take it, will afford a means of satisfying and employing 

 the purest intelligence and most perfect reasoning powers 

 .and inherent "adaptability" of spiritual existences through- 

 out the " endless ages of eternity." 



Continuity, as thus seen, includes in " one whole " 

 every material entity, every dynamic occurrence, and 

 every spiritual existence throughout the cosmos or 

 universe, and occupies space from the dimensions of 

 the point of the mathematician to the utmost attainable 

 limit of astronomical observation and metaphysical 

 speculation, perpetuating itself in never-ending sequence 

 throughout illimitable space and on through infinite 

 time. Continuity, therefore, proves that although the 

 human intelligence can differentiate between these in- 

 cluded entities, it cannot realise the separate and distinct 

 existence and working of one or either of them, all being 



